Name: Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism (en Inglés)
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Author: Todd M. Brenneman
ISBN: 9780199988983

portada Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Todd M. Brenneman

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

208

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780199988983

N° edición

Categorías

Historia de la religión
Cristianismo

Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism (en Inglés)"

In popular evangelical literature, God is loving and friendly, described in heartfelt, often saccharine language that evokes nostalgia, comfortable domesticity, and familial love. This emotional style has been widely adopted by the writers most popular among American evangelicals, including such celebrity pastors as Max Lucado, Rick Warren, and Joel Osteen. Todd M. Brenneman provides groundbreaking insight into the phenomenon of evangelical sentimentality: an emotional appeal to readers' feelings about familial relationships, which can in turn be used as the basis for a relationship with God. Brenneman shows how evangelicals use tropes of God as father, human beings as children, and nostalgia for an imagined idyllic home life to provide alternate sources of social authority, intended to help evangelicals survive a culture that is philosophically at odds with conservative Christianity. Yet Brenneman also demonstrates that the sentimental focus on individual emotion and experience can undermine the evangelical agenda. Sentimentality is an effective means of achieving individual conversions, but it also promotes a narcissism that blinds evangelicals to larger social forces and impedes their ability to bring about the change they seek.Homespun Gospel offers a compelling perspective on an unexplored but vital aspect of American evangelical identity.